2007
Anna Marie Tydings, 92, former president of the Montgomery County General Federation of Women's Clubs and the founder of
Laytonsville Women's Club, died May 30 at her home in Lexington Park. The cause of death was failure to thrive.
Mrs. Tydings and her husband, Warren E. Tydings, a real estate investor and developer, built the Montgomery Country Club in
Laytonsville in the early 1960s. She was one of the first female jurors in Montgomery and also served on the founding board of
the First Community Psychiatric Association.
In the late 1940s, she was associated with the first pilot summer program for public school children with cerebral palsy, which
led to special education classes in public schools.
Mrs. Tydings was born in Erie, Pa., the daughter of Eleanor Quirk and George Marcus Quirk. She grew up in Washington,
graduating from Western High School. She was a 1936 graduate of the University of Maryland and attended the University of
Munich in Germany. She was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Mrs. Tydings, who spent most of her married life in Laytonsville, participated in numerous organizations. She was member of
the Manor Country Club in Rockville, Down to Earth Garden Club, Crippled Children Society of Potomac, Stitch and Chatter Club,
the Redland Hunt Pony Club in Brookeville and the Goshen Hunt Club in Gaithersburg, the Antiques Club and Gaithersburg
Women's Club.
In later years, she lived in St. Mary's County and Hillsboro Beach, Fla. In St. Mary's, Mrs. Tydings was active in the St. Ignatius
Society and opened her home to fundraisers for the society as well as HealthShare and the St. Mary's River Yacht Club.
She also was active in the St. Mary's Garden Club and enjoyed arranging prize-winning miniatures for the county fair.
Her husband died in 1993.
Survivors include three children, Eleanor Tydings-Reynolds of St. Mary's City, George R. Tydings of Chevy Chase and Warren E.
Tydings Jr. of Laytonsville; a sister, Eleanor Abbey of Galesville; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.